Shinichirou Tomonaga--1906-3-31--1979-7-8

The background of Shinichiro Tomonaga

Shinichiro Tomonaga was the translator of the textbook I was using [Dirac’s “Quantum Mechanics”]. Its ancestors follow the flow of the Omura domain (currently in Nagasaki prefecture). And Shinichiro Tomonaga’s father was a professor of philosophy at Kyoto University. With such a background, Shinichiro Tomonaga teaches at Tokyo University of Education, the predecessor of the current University of Tsukuba, and eventually becomes the president. He was born in Tokyo, raised in Kyoto, and discussed around the world.

Achievements of Shinichiro Tomonaga

The greatest research achievement of Shinichiro Tomonaga is the renormalization theory. There is a reaction of elementary particles that is also expressed in a mysterious schematic diagram called the Feynman diagram, but it explains the mathematical contradiction in the process. Feynman’s path integral also has a mathematical beauty, but Shinichiro Tomonaga’s theory is more intuitive and convincing.

Speaking of taste, it is a matter of taste, but when the Lamb shift is correctly examined for the big problem of divergence and ∞ and the calculation can be done relativistically, the story is connected in an instant and it seems that it was “correct” sensuously. is. With the understanding of Shinichiro Tomonaga, quantum electrodynamics was organized and particle physics made great progress. Shinichiro Tomonaga also promoted scientific enlightenment for young people before entering university in his later years.

Finally, Shinichiro Tomonaga was in sync with Hideki Yukawa at Kyoto University. Each form was completed by the physics of the time.